Community’s Joel McHale and Jim Rash have finally followed up on their True Detective tease with the full parody video and I must say it’s one of the finest segments The Soup has ever produced. The production value alone.

If you’re like me you hit the rewind button at least three times per True Detective because between the smoking, the drinking, and just the all around cryptic not-so-everyday conversations it’s easy to miss something. Honestly I think this show would be about half as successful if it wasn’t for DVR. With that in mind this is a pretty perfect parody angle…

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Obviously, McHale as McConaughey as Rust Cohle is what we all came for, but let’s take a moment to recognize Jim Rash’s work as gibberish speaking Marty Hart. Very few people — if any — have ever nailed Woody Harrelson’s speech pattern quite so effectively. I guess what I’m saying is MOAR DEAN DOES JEFF IMPERSONATION PLZ. Seriously, at least Season 4 gave us that.

HERE WE GO DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE: I recognized one of the things Joel McHale said. Early on in the clip he says, something like “Momma say mambo dogface to the banana patch”. It’s part of an old Steve Martin joke about purposely talking wrong around children.

I’m just a regular old yankee but I do not find it all that difficult to understand the words that are coming out of Woody Wooderson’s collective mouths. I do sometimes take a while to figure out what it means, but the words are pretty clear.

Rust Cohle has to be the biggest challenge yet to lip readers, with the trifecta of being tight lipped, drawling his words, and capped with all that high fallutin’, esoteric dialogue! Rust Cohle sets the bar for lip reading, with Marty not too far behind…

Normally a big fans of these guys, but had trouble getting past the Steve Martin reference/ripoff, but this lost me when I realized it was just that old Chris Kattan skit. Also, I have ears for shit but I find myself understanding True Detective fairly well.

Talk about your false premise…the guys on true detective ain’t hard to understand. I think a more appropriate parody would be focusing on meaningful glances. THIS IS STUPID. I mean I love those two actors, but this is not an intelligent parody of the show. The show is absolutely ripe for parody, but not they can’t talk good parody. JEEZUS UPROXX! This is like bully’s that pretend your stammering and think that’s hilarious.

The line that was most relevant to the show and funny was “i’m just gonna get guess you cheated on me”

I don’t think they are making fun of the mumbles or not able to understand what words they are saying, but that folks don’t understand the context in which speeches and metaphors are spoken. That they are so esoteric in nature that to some folks it is pretty much just a bunch of words thrown together.

@Duchess They could have thrown words together that sound like metaphors that nobody would make instead of going to full drunken, incoherence. Clearly a lot of people found this funny so I feel like me nitpicking more is moot, but for me there are funnier ways to make fun of this show and a lot of people have successfully been doing it already.